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Dianne Feinstein resigns committee post amid scandal; accused of war profiteering
Feinstein Resigns
Senator exits MILCON following Metro exposé, vet-care scandal
"DEMOCRATS AS MARINATED IN CORRUPTION AS REPUBLICANS, FOR EXAMPLE, DIANE
FEINSTEIN"-- Carolyn Baker http://carolynbaker.org/
Senator exits MILCON following Metro exposé, vet-care scandal
"DEMOCRATS AS MARINATED IN CORRUPTION AS REPUBLICANS, FOR EXAMPLE, DIANE
FEINSTEIN"-- Carolyn Baker http://carolynbaker.org/
Dianne Feinstein resigns committee post amid scandal; accused of war profiteering
by Joshua Holland
March 30, 2007
SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.
As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.
Perhaps she resigned from MILCON because she could not take the heat generated by Metro's expose of her ethics (which was partially funded by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute). Or was her work on the subcommittee finished because Blum divested ownership of his military construction and advanced weapons manufacturing firms in late 2005?
FIRST SOURCE:
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/03.21.07/dianne-feinstein-resigns-0712.html
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by Joshua Holland
March 30, 2007
SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.
As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.
Perhaps she resigned from MILCON because she could not take the heat generated by Metro's expose of her ethics (which was partially funded by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute). Or was her work on the subcommittee finished because Blum divested ownership of his military construction and advanced weapons manufacturing firms in late 2005?
FIRST SOURCE:
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/03.21.07/dianne-feinstein-resigns-0712.html
READ THE REST:
For more information:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#49970
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